http://dir.salon.com/topics/sex_features/?source=rss&aim=sex_features en-us Copyright 2007 Salon.com. Tue, 16 Jun 2009 03:06:00 PDT By Laura Miller Tue, 16 Jun 2009 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/review/2009/06/16/east_west_sex/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2009/06/16/east_west_sex/index.html?source=rss What is the deal with Western men's erotic obsession with the East? By Scott Lamb Tue, 16 Jun 2009 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/sex/feature/2004/04/22/butts/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/sex/feature/2004/04/22/butts/index.html?source=rss As the porn industry reels from an HIV scare, "gonzo" king Seymore Butts announces a condom-only policy. He tells Salon why. By David Amsden Tue, 16 Jun 2009 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/sex/feature/2004/03/19/impotency_ads/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/sex/feature/2004/03/19/impotency_ads/index.html?source=rss TV ads for impotency drugs are targeting sports fans and beer drinkers, and they have a new message: If you're not taking a pill to help your sex life, you're not a real man. By Betsy Andrews Tue, 16 Jun 2009 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/sex/feature/2004/03/12/penthouse/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/sex/feature/2004/03/12/penthouse/index.html?source=rss Middle-aged Penthouse Forum has become an improbable voice for family values -- as long as you turn your wife over to the cable guy. By Kamy Wicoff Tue, 16 Jun 2009 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/sex/feature/2004/03/04/uk_vibe/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/sex/feature/2004/03/04/uk_vibe/index.html?source=rss Old Britannia puts prudish America to shame, with chic vibrator stores as ubiquitous as Gaps and sex-toy parties thrown by a royal granddaughter. By Jason Feifer Tue, 16 Jun 2009 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/sex/feature/2004/02/26/kissology/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/sex/feature/2004/02/26/kissology/index.html?source=rss How a nebbishy ex-academic who keeps changing his name wound up traveling around the country convincing total strangers to kiss onstage. By Carlene Bauer Tue, 16 Jun 2009 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/sex/feature/2004/02/19/sweet_action/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/sex/feature/2004/02/19/sweet_action/index.html?source=rss With its photos of lanky slacker bohemians, the new magazine Sweet Action is the thinking girl's antidote to bulging Chippendale hunks. Tue, 16 Jun 2009 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/sex/feature/2004/01/16/bad_writing/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/sex/feature/2004/01/16/bad_writing/index.html?source=rss And the winner is ... the Starr Report! Why? Because it has a bigger ick factor than any of the other submissions (pun intended). Tue, 16 Jun 2009 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/sex/feature/2004/01/15/bad_writing/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/sex/feature/2004/01/15/bad_writing/index.html?source=rss Second place goes to a slice of pulp that shimmers with sleaze. Tue, 16 Jun 2009 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/sex/feature/2004/01/14/bad_writing/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/sex/feature/2004/01/14/bad_writing/index.html?source=rss Third place goes to a passage from a classic text about honey, citadels and threaded needles. By Debra Ollivier Tue, 16 Jun 2009 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/sex/feature/2004/01/12/french_women/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/sex/feature/2004/01/12/french_women/index.html?source=rss Young girls in France learn early in life that happiness is not as important as passion. By Glen Helfand Tue, 16 Jun 2009 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/sex/feature/2004/01/08/waters/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/sex/feature/2004/01/08/waters/index.html?source=rss A new book, coauthored by John Waters, is like looking behind the scenes at a perverted gallery opening. By Dave Hill Tue, 16 Jun 2009 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/sex/feature/2004/01/06/yoga/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/sex/feature/2004/01/06/yoga/index.html?source=rss Our intrepid reporter visits a yoga class that promises to awaken the parts "down there" and finds that it helps if your teachers are hotties. By David Bowman Tue, 16 Jun 2009 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/sex/feature/2003/12/18/internet/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/sex/feature/2003/12/18/internet/index.html?source=rss An Israeli philosophy professor says that online love can be more powerful than off-line because, after all, sex is about the brain, isn't it? By Sabina Balou Tue, 16 Jun 2009 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/sex/feature/2003/12/15/affair/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/sex/feature/2003/12/15/affair/index.html?source=rss What you want to know is how it feels to make love to someone when both of our wedding rings are off. Tue, 16 Jun 2009 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/sex/feature/2003/12/12/badwriting/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/sex/feature/2003/12/12/badwriting/index.html?source=rss Using Bill "tongue moving rapidly" O'Reilly as your model, ferret out the best of the worst descriptions of the procreative act and send it to us. By Michelle Richmond Tue, 16 Jun 2009 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/sex/feature/2003/12/11/xmastree/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/sex/feature/2003/12/11/xmastree/index.html?source=rss Every year I remember my first erotic encounter with a Christmas Tree Boy. By Lisa Movius Tue, 16 Jun 2009 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/sex/feature/2003/12/02/china/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/sex/feature/2003/12/02/china/index.html?source=rss As the sexual floodgates open in China, the biggest taboo left is talking about sex. By Cole Kazdin Tue, 16 Jun 2009 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/sex/feature/2003/11/26/abercrombie/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/sex/feature/2003/11/26/abercrombie/index.html?source=rss Looking at the Abercrombie & Fitch catalog makes me want to buy their clothes, but I'm too exhausted from self-abuse. Tue, 16 Jun 2009 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/sex/feature/2003/11/25/asktracy/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/sex/feature/2003/11/25/asktracy/index.html?source=rss Have a question about sex? Ask a woman who's a former prostitute, a novelist and wise about the ways of the flesh. By Roberta Johnson Tue, 16 Jun 2009 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/sex/feature/2003/11/24/lunch/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/sex/feature/2003/11/24/lunch/index.html?source=rss I bonded with the woman he cheated on me with. Then I started weeping. By Beth Heaton Tue, 16 Jun 2009 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/sex/feature/2003/11/20/virgin/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/sex/feature/2003/11/20/virgin/index.html?source=rss I loved and was attracted to my husband, but I didn't want to have sex with him. By Mark Simpson Tue, 16 Jun 2009 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/sex/feature/2003/11/19/prince_charles/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/sex/feature/2003/11/19/prince_charles/index.html?source=rss Regardless of the truth of the allegations that no one in Britain has heard, the truly shocking thing would be if a royal, public schoolboy or military man here had never enjoyed a spot of buggery in his youth. By Kamy Wicoff Tue, 16 Jun 2009 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/sex/feature/2003/11/14/middlebrook/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/sex/feature/2003/11/14/middlebrook/index.html?source=rss Diane Middlebrook talks about why the marriage of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes was a soaring success despite his infidelity and her suicide -- and why promising to be sexually faithful is folly. By Rebecca Traister Tue, 16 Jun 2009 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/sex/feature/2003/11/12/paris/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/sex/feature/2003/11/12/paris/index.html?source=rss The grainy, night-vision sex video circulating the Internet will satisfy people wanting to see Paris Hilton debased. (Is that redundant?) But Pamela and Tommy Lee have nothing to fear.